Saturday, 30 November 2019

Do You Hear What I Hear??



One
Lone voice
Will
Define
The only
World
I
Can 
Live in

Cacophony
Vie
For my
Attention

"Shock jocks"
"CNN"
"Celebrities"
Sports "personalities"
"Entertainers"

The
Pinnacle
(or abyss)
Of
Their craft
Doesn't
Define
My
Destiny

Voices
Decrying
The "Patriarchy"
Clambouring
In line
At
The mall
For
The 
Next word
From
The 
"Best-selling" 
Poet

Stratified
Dogma
Echoing
Through
Boardrooms
Passed
Into
Law
Genocide
Marked
By
Bank 
"Holidays"

Financial
Political
Religious
Social
Hiearchy
Built
Upon
A foundation
Of
The 
Bleached bones
And
Restless Spirits
Of
Indigenous populations
Slaughtered
Through 
"Ethnic cleansing"


"First"
World
"Success"
A
Unconscious
Competition
To 
Amass
The 
Spoils
Of
"Third"
World
Slavery
Via
The 
Twenty-first
Century's
Version
of
The
Black (Friday) plague

Playground
Bullies
"Elected"
To 
"Public"
Office

A
Citizenry
Too
Fear-laden
To
Give up
Their guns

Why?
Obsessed
With
The need
For 
Self-defence 
Against
All 
Those
Carrying guns

The
Voice
Of reason
Sanity
Seeping
Through
The din
Is
Seen
As dissension 
"Conspiracy"
Whistleblowing
Villified
Gag-orders
&
Gurus
Voices
Ringing
Out
Walk
This way
To
The Promised Land
Somebody
Is
Lying

It's 
Not for me
To say 
Who

One
Lone voice
Will
Define
The only
World
I
Can 
Live in

To 
All 
The
Rest
Turn
A
Deaf ear


R. O'Neill (November 30, 2019)






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